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  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    A "serious and thoughtful" interpretation of Machiavelli's life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent ( The Times, London).Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text The Prince remains one of the most important and ... Leer más

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  • Constitutional Fate

    Theory of the Constitution

    Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. ... Leer más

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  • The Shield of Achilles

    War, Peace, and the Course of History

    "We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of mass destruction. The change in statecraft that will accompany these developments will be as profound ... Leer más

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  • Terror and Consent

    Philip Bobbitt follows his magisterial Shield of Achilles with an equally provocative analysis of the West's struggle against terror. Boldly stating that the primary driver of terrorism is not Islam but the emergence of market states (like the U.S. and the E.U.), Bobbitt warns of an era where weapons of mass destruction will be commodified and the wealthiest societies even more vulnerable to ... Leer más

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  • Constitutional Fate

    Theory of the Constitution

    Here, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for the legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legal figures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. ... Leer más

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  • The Ages of American Law

    Second Edition

    de Grant Gilmore ...
    Series series The Storrs Lectures Series
    Following its publication in 1974, Grant Gilmore's compact portrait of the development of American law from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century became a classic. In this new edition, the portrait is brought up to date with a new chapter by Philip Bobbitt that surveys the trajectory of American law since the original publication. Bobbitt also provides a Foreword on Gilmore and the ... Leer más

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  • Impeachment

    A Handbook, New Edition

    Charles L. Black Jr.’s classic guide to presidential impeachment, now in an updated edition with new material by Philip BobbittOriginally published at the height of the Watergate crisis and reissued in 1998, two months before the second impeachment of a U.S. president, Charles Black’s Impeachment became the premier guide to the subject of presidential impeachment. Now thoroughly updated, it is ... Leer más

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  • The Triumph of Christianity

    How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Miquoting Jesus comes the “marvelous” (Reza Aslan, bestselling author of Zealot) story of how Christianity became the dominant religion in the West.How did a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four ... Leer más

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  • Medieval Maritime Warfare

    This sweeping history of maritime warfare through the Middle Ages ranges from the 8th century to the 14th, covering the Mediterranean and Northern Europe.After the fall of Rome, the sea becomes the center of conflict for Western Civilization. In a world of few roads and great disorder, it is where power is projected and wealth is sought. Yet, since this turbulent period in the history of maritime ... Leer más

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  • The Equation that Couldn't Be Solved

    How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

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    What do Bach's compositions, Rubik's Cube, the way we choose our mates, and the physics of subatomic particles have in common? All are governed by the laws of symmetry, which elegantly unify scientific and artistic principles. Yet the mathematical language of symmetry-known as group theory-did not emerge from the study of symmetry at all, but from an equation that couldn't be solved.For thousands ... Leer más

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  • The Man from the Future

    The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

    **A Scientific American 2023 Staff RecommendationAn electrifying biography of one of the most extraordinary scientists of the twentieth century and the world he made.**The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable, yet largely overlooked, ... Leer más

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  • Armageddon

    What the Bible Really Says about the End

    A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters.You’ll find nearly everything the Bible says about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very ... Leer más

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